SOURCE: Bergeron, David M. “Anthony Munday.” In English Civic Pageantry 1558-1642, pp. 140-62. London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1971.

In this essay, Bergeron closely examines Munday's Lord Mayors' Shows and explores their relation to stage plays.

Out of an enormously varied and prolific career it was all but inevitable that Anthony Munday try his hand at Lord Mayors' Shows, and it is his spirit which broods over almost the entire Jacobean period. For his dramatic productions Munday had earned recognition from Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia where he is cited as being among ‘the best for comedy’ with the additional compliment that he is our ‘best plotter’. But Munday's interests eventually turn from the public to the pageant theatre and such things as his additions to Stow's Survey of London. Already we have noted his involvement with the final mayoralty pageant of the Elizabethan era and his authorship of...